Funding Your Graduate Education

Graduate Assistantships

WGS has a limited number of assistantships for MA students; they pay a stipend and come with an in-state tuition waiver. Duties of graduate assistants may include support of teaching, research, or co-curricular programming. GAs may not work more than 20 hours per week at all employment.

Other Graduate Assistantships are frequently available. WGS students sometimes find assistantships in these areas who don’t have their own graduate programs:

Retroactive Tuition Waivers

If you have an assistantship or fellowship that pays you $6ooo.oo per year, but it does not include a tuition waiver, the Director of Graduate Studies can nominate you for a retroactive tuition waiver in the Spring. You would pay tuition up front (with a loan, for example), but get a credit when the tuition waiver goes into effect.

Scholarships

Thanks to Sally and Alan Cone, WGS offers several scholarships and awards for graduate and undergraduate WGS majors and students doing outstanding work in WGS. See the deadlines and criteria here and apply individually: https://wgs.uncg.edu/resources/cone-awards/

The Graduate school offers several scholarships and fellowships; the program must nominate you for these. Some of them are need-based, so be sure to complete your FAFSA!